{"id":807063,"date":"2021-09-23T17:58:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T21:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=807063"},"modified":"2021-09-23T17:59:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T21:59:01","slug":"trump-says-he-almost-would-prefer-to-have-the-democrat-win-against-republicans-who-voted-to-impeach-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-he-almost-would-prefer-to-have-the-democrat-win-against-republicans-who-voted-to-impeach-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says He \u2018Almost Would Prefer To Have The Democrat Win\u2019 Against Republicans Who Voted To Impeach Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-says-he-almost-would-prefer-to-have-the-democrat-win-against-republicans-who-voted-to-impeach-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=807063&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump told radio host John Fredericks on Thursday that he \u201calmost would prefer to have the Democrat win\u201d against the nine House Republicans who voted to impeach him and are standing for re-election in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a few of those candidates in very blue areas\u201d who could lose to Democrats in 2022, the former president said, pointing to Reps. David Valadao of California and John Katko of New York. Valadao is \u201creally much more of a Democrat, probably, than a Republican,\u201d Trump claimed, adding that he thinks Katko \u201cwill be districted out.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.4701492537313\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump said he would almost rather have Dems defeat the 5 House Republicans who voted to impeach him than for them to hold their seats \u2015 and he\u2019s calling on McCarthy to deny them help <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MJI9GqXU6E\">https:\/\/t.co\/MJI9GqXU6E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Congress Minutes (@politicongress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politicongress\/status\/1441124916330369024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Valadao, Katko, Michigan Reps. Peter Meijer and Fred Upton, and Washington Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler have all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/?data_type=processed&amp;contributor_name=C00766782&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">received<\/a> about $100,000 in campaign funds from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy\u2019s leadership PAC via a joint fundraising committee, CNN first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/10\/politics\/kevin-mccarthy-house-republicans-trump\/index.html\">reported<\/a>. McCarthy\u2019s Majority Committee PAC also gave $10,000 to Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, although Gonzalez has since <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/17\/anthony-gonzalez-retirement-ohio-donald-trump\/\">announced<\/a> his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina Rep. Tom Rice, Washington Rep. Dan Newhouse, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, and Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger have not received campaign funds from McCarthy. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/16\/adam-kinzinger-liz-cheney-donald-trump-elections-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Anti-Trump Republicans Blow Away Challengers In Second-Quarter Fundraising)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump has endorsed primary challengers against Herrera <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/01\/trump-endorses-joe-kent-over-jamie-herrera-beutler\/\">Beutler<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/09\/donald-trump-endorse-harriet-hageman-bid-oust-liz-cheney\/\">Cheney<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/07\/donald-trump-endorses-steve-carra-over-incumbent-fred-upton-michigan-congress\/\">Upton<\/a>, and supported former aide Max Miller, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/26\/trump-primary-ohio-anthony-gonzalez-max-miller-voted-impeach\/\">challenged<\/a> Gonzalez in what will now be an open primary.<\/p>\n<p>He slammed McCarthy for giving money to the members who voted to impeach him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome to the world of politics,\u201d Trump told Fredericks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to look at them, I\u2019m going to see who he\u2019s funding,\u201d Trump said of McCarthy. \u201cAnd if he is, I\u2019ll stop the whole deal. I\u2019ll stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), called on Trump in March to stay out of primaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not gonna be helpful,\u201d Emmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/03\/nrcc-chair-trump-primary-challenges-impeachment-473260\">told<\/a> Politico.<\/p>\n<p>The NRCC does not endorse or give money to candidates during primaries. McCarthy\u2019s Take Back the House 2022 has given primary as well as general election funds to the five candidates, all of whom are facing primary challenges.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump told radio host John Fredericks on Thursday that he \u201calmost would prefer to have the Democrat win\u201d against the nine House Republicans who voted to impeach &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}